A Sacramento-area woman who embezzled more than $100,000 from her mother was sentenced to 18 months in jail, officials said.

Christine Ann Cooper, 64, a former licensed insurance agent, pleaded no contest to one felony count of embezzlement, forgery fraud or identity theft from an elder or dependent adult and one felony count of grand theft of property, the California Department of Insurance said in a statement.

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Cooper was also sentenced to 5 years’ probation and ordered to pay $60,000 in restitution, officials said.

After receiving a complaint, the Department of Insurance Investigation Division and the Rocklin Police Department investigated Cooper, officials said. They discovered that as her mother’s trustee, she wrote checks to herself from her mother’s trust accounts and falsified trust statements to hide her thefts.

Cooper stole about $129,000 from her mother over a 9-year period, officials said. She was arrested and her license was revoked.

"Insurance agents and brokers who prey on elders are particularly loathsome," Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said in a statement. "Cooper violated her fiduciary responsibility and trust when she stole these funds. Her crime is particularly egregious because she took advantage of her own mother."